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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 11:02 AM Jan 2014

Rand Paul worries women ‘won’ the war and are ‘conquering’ men, taking their jobs

By David Edwards
Sunday, January 26, 2014 13:08 EST

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday declared that the so-called Republican war on women was over and women had “won,” but a new war was being waged by women who were taking jobs from men.

“We have a lot of debates in Washington that get dumbed down and are used for political purposes,” Paul told NBC’s David Gregory. “This whole sort of war on women thing, I’m scratching my head because, if there was a war on women, I think they won.”

As evidence, the Kentucky senator pointed out that none of the women in his family were complaining about inequality or having their health care rights curtailed by Republicans.


“You know, I don’t see so much that women are downtrodden, I see women rising up and doing great things,” he remarked. “In fact, I worry about our young men sometimes because I think the women really are out-competing the men in our world.”

Paul added that he tried to never talk about the female anatomy and that Republicans did not start the war on women “debate.”

“The facts show that women are doing very well, have come a long way,” he explained. “And I have a lot of successful women in my family. And I don’t here them saying, ‘Oh, woe is me, this terrible misogynist world.’ They look out and they’re conquering the world.”

Paul later suggested that for President Bill Clinton was responsible for the “war on women” because he had an affair with an intern while he was in office during the 1990s.

“The media seems to have given President Clinton a pass on this,” Paul insisted. “There is no excuse for that, that is predatory behavior and it shouldn’t be something — we should’t want to associate with people who would take advantage of a young girl in his office.”

The potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate said that it was difficult to unlink Bill Clinton’s behavior from potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“I think in my state, people tend to frown upon that,” he declared. “If there were someone in my community who did that in my community, they would be socially — we would disassociate from somebody who would take advantage of a young woman in a workplace.”

Watch this video from NBC’s Meet the Press, broadcast Jan. 26, 2013.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/26/rand-paul-worries-women-won-the-war-and-are-conquering-men-taking-their-jobs/

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Rand Paul worries women ‘won’ the war and are ‘conquering’ men, taking their jobs (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2014 OP
Dumb, dumb, dumb. nt ZombieHorde Jan 2014 #1
He sounds like a KKK member grousing about black people except that he has substituted women for ladjf Jan 2014 #2
Actually, he sounds like these guys. The_Commonist Jan 2014 #3
I'm unable to comment about your post because I can't understand what the cartoon characters were ladjf Jan 2014 #5
"They took our jobs!" The_Commonist Jan 2014 #9
OK. That makes sense. ladjf Jan 2014 #11
"Paul added that he tried to never talk about the female anatomy.." pangaia Jan 2014 #4
He becomes more insufferable by the day Nancy Waterman Jan 2014 #6
How nice that the women in his family Lindsay Jan 2014 #7
All Hail the Aqua Budoir Blue Owl Jan 2014 #8
A bit patronizing, don't you think? aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2014 #10
Every time he opens his mouth, shit just belches out. sakabatou Jan 2014 #12
Rand Paul keeps working on his "flaky" credentials. "Please proceed, Senator." yellowcanine Jan 2014 #13

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
2. He sounds like a KKK member grousing about black people except that he has substituted women for
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 11:18 AM
Jan 2014

black people. nt

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
5. I'm unable to comment about your post because I can't understand what the cartoon characters were
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 11:36 AM
Jan 2014

saying.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
11. OK. That makes sense.
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 03:29 PM
Jan 2014

When the KKK was founded during the late part of the 19th Century in Tennessee, their primary fear was that the freed blacks
would flood the labor market causing the Whites to lose theirs.

Nancy Waterman

(6,407 posts)
6. He becomes more insufferable by the day
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 11:40 AM
Jan 2014

Let him keep talking and dig a deeper and deeper hole for himself.

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
7. How nice that the women in his family
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 11:44 AM
Jan 2014

are doing well.

Perhaps that is a bit too small a sample, however.

(Whadda jerk.)

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
10. A bit patronizing, don't you think?
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 03:20 PM
Jan 2014

Paul knows we need but visit the average boardroom of a major corporation to witness the fallacy in his argument. That he would deign to propose that women are surpassing men in the workplace, from his position of superiority in a political party where women occupy virtually no positions of power is very kind and generous on his part. Can he condescend any further, I wonder?


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